MSc Advanced Control and Systems Engineering with Extended Research / Course details

Optimal Control

• Quadratic Lyapunov functions for linear systems
• LQR (optimal state feedback) control
• Robustness of LQR control
• Kalman filter (optimal observers)
• LQG control (combining LQR state feedback and optimal observer)
• Loop transfer recovery
• Adding integral action
• H2 norms and H2 optimal control

Robust Control

Underpinning concepts:

• Singular value decomposition, the H-infinity norm and the H-infinity function space
• Well-posedness and internal stability of feedback interconnections
• Small-gain theorem

Uncertainty representations and robust stability analysis:

• Additive, multiplicative and inverse multiplicative uncertainty representations
• Linear Fractional Transformations (LFT) and LFT uncertainty representation
• Robust stability tests

Robust controller synthesis and robust control design methodology:

• Riccati based H-infinity control synthesis
• H-infinity loopshaping control design methodology

To introduce students to the fundamentals of LQG control

To introduce students to the fundamentals of robustness analysis, robust control law synthesis and robust control design

ILO1 - Define optimal behaviour for control systems.

ILO2 - Design of control systems based on optimal performance criteria.

ILO3 - Apply optimal control methods to systems from a variety of technological areas.

ILO4 - Design optimal estimators and use Kalman filters in fields outside control engineering. 

ILO5 - Define optimal estimation of a stochastic system.

ILO6 - Analyse the robustness of a feedback control system. 

ILO7 - Design of control systems based on robustness criteria. 

ILO8 - Define the robustness of a control system using h-infinite norm.

ILO9 - Design controllers for systems when accurate mathematical models are unavailable. 

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